... handling system, the amount of security check positions andthe number of departure gates On top of this, the number of staff to employ andthe shifts they should work need to be determined The ... ‘ the good, the bad andthe ugly’’ of simulation practice It is these lessons that are described in the pages that follow The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a clear understanding ... Simulation: ThePracticeof Model Development and Use Stewart Robinson Warwick Business School Simulation: ThePracticeof Model Development and Use Simulation: ThePracticeof Model Development and...
... function, andthe jouissance ofthe Other, to illustrate the theory and clinic of psychosis In the cases of John, Mr Owens, and Mr T., the reader gets a powerful sense ofthe pathos andthe anguished ... “father” the paternal function—also acts to limit the jouissance demanded by the Other in the imaginary ofthe child Loss and lack are the law for child, but they are the law also for the Other, ... answer the lack in the Other, a lack necessitated by the law ofthe signifier, and lying at the heart of desire The next chapters on symptom and fantasy (chaps 7, and 8) further integrate these theoretical...
... enhance the basic clinical skills of all clinicians and also encourages the psychiatrists and paediatricians at the pinnacle ofthe inverted triangle to move down to the middle tier in the inverted ... http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/), the number of CAP specialists is remarkably low The increasing rate of mental and developmental problems among the younger generation has attracted the attention of both laypeople and medical ... in diagnosis and treatment, sense of satisfaction, potential primary practice interest, and optimism about the future ofthe CAP field Furthermore, respondents were surveyed about their interest...
... on the rise, and offshoring is the new buzzword The rise of India and China as economic superpowers has changed the way we think about the world AJAX and other Web 2.0 technologies have made the ... a lot of notes We’ve smoothed the rough edges and filled some ofthe major holes The first edition garnered a lot of positive reviews and buzz We were very honored However, the passing of time ... cautiously learn about them and their uses Now more and more people grow up using computers, which means that they have higher expectations of them when they are in positions of power The CEOs who were...
... example, often SQL developers use a series of queries to gather data and sum them Instead, send a longer SQL query to the server that gathers the data, sums them, and returns just the result Mathematically ... using both products and rely on the interface between them ❖ The Protocol versus the Product SAs need to understand the difference between the protocol andthe product One might standardize on Simple ... reliability and make it easier to support and maintain Another 98 Chapter Services method of easing support and maintenance for a service is to use standard hardware, standard software, and standard...
... the hot air coming from the backs ofthe machines, which is then exhausted up and out the room through vents in the ceiling Along the left and right sides ofthe back of each rack is a PDU with ... labeling on the walls ofthe data center The new practice was not particularly communicated to the group, but as soon as they saw the labels, the SAs immediately started following the practice: ... properly cool every rack The cold air flows up the front ofthe rack, and each machine’s fans pull the air toward the back ofthe rack Rows of racks alternate which is front and which is back That...
... let them make the decision without having to understand the technology, and they were able to break the tie where the SAs disagreed By the time the hardware was ready, the grid was complete The ... Depending on the size ofthe company andthe security team, the team probably will be composed of people from across the SA organization, as well as the security team The rest ofthe time, this ... field offices of a company The smaller field offices often feel that their needs are ignored or neglected because they often have different sets of requirements from people in the larger offices and...
... when they call, because they understand the importance of complete information in solving the problem In gathering this information, they will have narrowed the focus ofthe problem report They ... whether the change should go ahead regardless of ‘ the weather’’ or wait until there is ‘‘good weather’’: the operating status ofthe service In other words, some changes are approved on the ... understanding what the customer is trying to and fixing the root cause ofthe problem, rather than smoothing over the symptoms Some debugging techniques are subtractive—process of elimination and others...
... can be handled quickly and efficiently, with all the relevant staff on-site and not having to be paged out of their beds Both of these factors are important in the overall satisfaction ofthe company ... control and execution of a service: improving the best case Neither is always better, and neither is always possible in the purest sense When each is done well, it can also realize the benefits ofthe ... Sometimes, the centralized services group may be unable to meet the demands placed on it by some ofthe departments in the company Before abandoning the centralized service, try to understand the reason...
... limited by the slowest ofthe following factors: read performance ofthe disk, write performance ofthe backup medium, bandwidth, and latency ofthe network between the disk andthe backup medium ... toward the top ofthe list and be the first priority the next night Backups typically failed because of a down host or, more likely, because the tape ran out of space The software wasn’t capable of ... printed pretty labels for the tape covers However, the system failed to reduce the thinking aspect ofthe job The software did a grand job of issuing the right backup commands at the right time, used...
... deciding on the size ofthe SA team, the management ofthe organization should take into account several factors: the number and variety of people and machines in the company the complexity ofthe environment, ... after the old one timed out, because the operating system was not releasing the connection Fortunately, one ofthe SAs on another part ofthe project was familiar with this behavior and knew ofthe ... stores the price ofthe item being purchased When the customer submits the form, the quantities chosen by the customer are used, with the hidden prices in the form, to compute the checkout total and...
... isolated, unimportant, and not part ofthe team The longer people stay with the group andthe less turnover there is, the more they will feel part ofthe team andthe more likely they are to stick ... the business goals ofthe company andofthe group The relationships with the nontechnical managers are key to the technical manager’s success and job satisfaction Use Analogies They Understand ... or learn, the requirements behind the tasks they are performing For customer-support calls, knowing the requirements means 33.1 The Basics 837 understanding the root ofthe problem andthe time...
... many of them found that they had no network connection: the CEO, the entire customer-support department, the Cowboy’s management chain, and many ofthe engineers The helpdesk andthe rest ofthe ... the current OS release, the current OS distribution, the current brand of computers, amount of bandwidth, and type of network topology The Staller doesn’t see the lack of technology refresh and ... positions, such as the people who design the infrastructure The value to the company of Installers is their ability to follow through and see that the job gets done They are often the final and most critical...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief ofthe ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result ofthe crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy andthe rise of new aspirations for democracy andthe self-determination of peoples The ... nourished and acorns provided with soil and water The interweaving of doctrine andpractice in the area of war has been a complex and often untidy process through much (or rather all) of history – and...
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal andthe informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus ofthe theory, however,...
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK andthe US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects ofthe collapse ofthe bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...
... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market andthe attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average ofthe baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI andthe risk of type DM Red meat consumption...
... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction ofthe total HLA-DR ofthe cell, however the ... expression of both the percentage of monocytes expressing HLA-DR andthe density of HLA-DR expression have been observed as a feature of sepsis [4;5;7;8;22-25] Only recently have the possible ... express HLA-DR on their surface [3] To assess the relative contribution of shed to total HLA-DR, the sHLA-DR in the plasma was compared to the total HLA-DR present in cell The level in the plasma (40ul...